Aviation Center Australia

One of the most colorful Boeing 707 jets that have ever flown on this planet's air routes will soon become part of our Yesterday Series. In 1979, and still as an independent company, Ecuatoriana introduced this jet with the registration HC-BGP. Ecuador's national airline had been founded only five years before. The model will be released as a limited edition.

The four yellow 707 jets of German Cargo Services GmbH were once famous as the so-called "curry bombers". They were replaced by McDonnell-Douglas DC-8/73F planes in 1984, putting an end to the conspicuous yellow livery. Following last year's limited 1/500 scale edition, the 707 is now released in the 1/400 scale with the registration D-ABUA.

Herpa is pleased to present a historic Lufthansa B707-300 as its second Yesterday model in the 1/400 scale, following the Boeing 707 of the German Air Force. The "Bremen" was operated mainly on the airline's Far East and South American routes from 1967 through 1983, after which it was operated by Lufthansa's subsidiary Condor, and its name was applied to a Lufthansa Boeing 747.

After the special model for the ILA 2000 in Berlin, another German Air Force model of a Boeing 707-307C comes out. The aircraft, registered 10+02 and named "Hans Grade", was the second of a total of four Boeing 707-307 planes which were operated by the German Air Force between 1969 and 1999. It is the first Herpa Wings model of this type to be released in the 1/400 scale.